The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1887-03-02
governor of Name. Chamberlain
stood by the president.

governor of Name. Chamberlain.
stood by the president.
"4es," cried MIR. Boutelle, "and
he stands alone in Name. + GApplause
on the republican s,de.J speak tor
Name Teers OF the democrats
and cries OF ''sorry tor Maine"
Mr.. Bragg continuing said that the
great soldier, Palmer, of Illinois,
stood by the president; Governor
Cox OF Ohio stood by the president.
Old Dan Sickles of the Third army
corps said that the veto was a most
GLORIOUS deed. Brave men of all
parties stood by the president. 1t
was only the little minds that went
buzzing about like insects that op-
posed him.
Mr.. Henderson OF Iowa broke IN
contemptuously: ''You stand by the
PRESIDENT"
Mr.. Bragg retorted fittingly: mo
staff commlssary can ever excite me.
| am speaking for what l consider
the soldiers interest. The largest
Grand Army post IN my state voted
not to ask members of congress to
go against the president. 1t is only
the class of gentlemen who hang
around the Grand Army posts who
crowd themselves in to get S.
week and to live upon their COM
rades who are making this grand
hue and cry.
EFFECT OF RECKLESS PRNsIoNlNG.
THE soldier prefers to stand by
his record and asks not that congress
shall mark HIM as 4 beggar. He
wants to have it understood that he
is IN private lite, as he was in the
army, soldier fighting for the main
tenanee of the union, loving his
country and not asking to be sup
ported BY IT, Why, look at the
effect. The confederate soldiers,
without hope, are to,l,ng, day by
day, and exhibiting thrift, industry
and energy never expected of them,
while the northern man, the inde-
pendent, the self reliant, the industri'
Gus, the energetic and the enterpris-
ing, lags behind into ;dleness. Why
Because he IS waiting for stipend
to come from the government and
. when that stipend comes 1t is spent
quickly, and if he comes from pool
. house he lapses back into that poi
8 sition and waits for another stipend
, Humanity only needs to be encour-
aged to do nothing. We are al
liable to drop into do-noth,ns
! policy if we can get somebody t.
support US, and 1t IS not good publi
4 policy tor us to legislate to encourag
vagabondism whether among ou
p soldiers or citizens"
! MIR. Steele OF Indiana, asked
5 "How about the Mexican pensio
n bill"
i Mr.. Bragg answered: II hav
# said that wished she president ha
r vetoed it. 1t is intimated that tn
- bill passed because it benefits con
federates. l ask any one Of yo.
,e b,goted as you may be, if you di
,- not get some OF the pork. You q
voted for the bill and now you hav
ss discovered that it is monstrosity.
,e Mr.. Warner Of Ohio declared tn
N the bill set a premium on pauper's
y and ,mprovidence.
,;s MEMBERS CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
or MIR. Outhwaite of Ohio said tn
,. he had voted for the bill, but nc
tel, justified in reversing that actio
ur According to the construction plae
- upon the bill by the committee
invalid claims, no distinction W
- made between deserving and unt
3 serving poverty.
7as Mr.. Morrison OF Illinois remarke
ed 81 voted for the bill. | am satisf
that it does not contain what
friends claim for it and that It
fairly subject to the objections urf
ess against 1t in the veto. Besides.
eat veto IS SO far above the high WI
- mark of ordinary executive in
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